Opportunities:
Job announcement: PhD in Algorithmic Fairness and Migration Law, Centre of Excellence on Global Mobility Law, Univ. of Copenhagen [info]
- Application deadline is 29 September 2022.
Call for applications: Fellowship, Migration and Technology Monitor [info]
- Submit expression of interest by 30 September 2022.
Blog posts & press:
"Google to start campaign against misinformation on Ukrainian refugees," DW, 24 Aug. 2022 [text]
- See also related Reuters article.
Listen Carefully: Call Centre Data Improves Understanding of Refugees’ Needs (UNHCR Innovation Service, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.
Top 10 Ways to Know If the Immigration Court Phone Line Has Been Hacked (The Asylumist Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.
"UK digital residence checks lock out refugees, slavery victims," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 15 Aug. 2022 [text]
New open access book:
Migration Research in a Digitized World: Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges (Springer, July 2022) [open access]
- "This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of 'big data', highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations."
Reports & journal articles:
"Computational analysis of 140 years of US political speeches reveals more positive but increasingly polarized framing of immigration," PNAS, 119(31):e2120510119 (July 2022) [open access]
- See also related news release.
"Computational approaches to migration and integration research: promises and challenges," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 Aug. 2022 [free full-text]
- Introduction to a forthcoming special issue.
A Decade Later: Reflecting on Disaster Relief 2.0 (Digital Humanitarian Network, June 2022) [text]
"An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:32 (Aug. 2022) [open access]
- Includes three case studies on UNHCR, New Zealand and the US.
"Following the Online Trail of Ukrainian Refugees through Google Trends," CESifo Forum, vol. 23, no. 4 (2022) [full-text]
Memo: Provide guidance to immigration judges on internet-based video hearings (EOIR, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.
Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (June 2022) [full-text]
- See section 4 for tech-related articles.
Multimedia:
WhatsApp, Lebanon? (The New Humanitarian, July 2022) [access]
- An "illustrated timeline of Lebanon’s collapse through the conversations of five people." Several of the participants were volunteers who worked with refugees or refugees themselves. For more info, read this interview.
Resource:
Migration and Technology Monitor [access]
- "Our mission is to monitor surveillance technologies, automation, and the use of Artificial Intelligence to screen, track, and make decisions about people on the move. The Monitor’s aim is to highlight the far reaching impacts that these procedures and policies have on people’s rights and lives and to support communities doing work on these issues."
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